Enclosed tarp configuration using two hiking poles

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In this video we take a look at how to set up an tarp in an enclosed way that is very spacious. Ideal for up to two people including their gear this tarp set up will provide you with plently of space in which to cook and sit if the weather is bad whilst also completley protecting you from the elements.

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hello of me and welcome to another video in this video I'm gonna be showing you another tarp setup it's one is ideal for two people it's great if you're up in the hills it's great if you don't have any trees to put a guy lineup with originally I got this idea from the outdoor life for Brian who used it on our trip up across Hayden's wall which is unfortunate for me failed however if you fancy watching that and actually seeing this tarp setup in action there will be a link either on this side or this side I can't man which side is appearing shortly so get over there and have a look at his videos it worked really really well for him it's a fantastic tarp setup it's very very spacious you can fit two people in there two people with gear and you've got plenty of space with you cooking in all kinds in there so the equipment that we're going to need for this is obviously our tarp so the top that I'm using is the DD 3x3 tarp it works excellently with a squirt art it would probably also work very very well with a rectangular tarp it's going to need to be quite a big tarps or three metres by three meters is ideal for me fantastically it's just tied raining so we're also going to need a couple of hiking poles so I've got again the DD hiking poles there you can use a stick for this or a couple of sticks for this new thing is with that you're going to have to make sure they're cut to size the great thing about the hiking poles is that they are adjustable and they also have a smooth definitely not sharp top on them which is gonna you know make sure that you're not gonna rip your tarpaulin up and also if you're up in the hills and you're hiking you probably want them with you anyway the reverse style piece of equipment we're also going to need whoops I've got three pieces of cord now for this setup I keep the cord pre pre measured and all I've done with this cord is measured it out and I've put a small loop in the end of each just to make everything easy you'll see how that comes into play a little bit later I'm staring at the camera to focus there's our loop so I've got two short pieces which is the same size and I've got a long piece if you're gonna work as a front dye line again with just those loops in you'll also gonna need some tent pegs and for the way that I'm doing it today I've got ten just ten really standard tent pegs and ideal situation you're gonna want more but I'm just out doing this video today I'm not actually staying out in it so I figured I'd just used ten because it was all I had but yet you need a maximum of 19 and a minimum of 10 it works quite well with 10 and I wanted to so I wanted to show it with the minimum amount anyway so let's have a look at how all of this goes together so the first thing I've done here is I've found a nice flat patch of ground to set my tarp up and make sure that I can fit the whole time the ground in this area it's not as perfectly flat as I'd like so I'm probably gonna lose a little bit of space with this set up just in this corner but it'll definitely do first thing I want to do with this set up is I want to come to the back side of the tarpaulin now just a quick note on that you can see the central line in the middle of the tarpaulin here you want to make sure that's orientated back to front I know it's a square tarpaulin but you want you don't want that going from side to side the reason for that will become clear later on so make sure that it's orientated that way and you want the back of this orientated into the wind you don't want that there's going to be opening at the front so obviously you don't want the opening face in the wind so we'll peg the back two corners out make sure they're pegged in a good 45 degree angle nice and tightly it's important to make sure that they've got that 45 degree all the pegged out tightly because this side is gonna take a little bit more stress than the rest of the than the rest of it once I've done that I'm going to find my central peace and I'm gonna peg that out really really tightly if you've got an extra-long steak or an extra big steak it wants to go in that piece once that part is done and then I'm going to come to the front side of the tarp and I'm gonna bring my corner in by one-one attachments wanna bring this corner to where this attachment is so just like so and pull that tight you'll fit feel it pulling tight along that side and again a good 45 degree angle it alert to make sure it's not gonna pop out and repeat that on this other side over here now I'm not pegging through both of those attachments I'm only paying through the corner attachment once that's done we're ready to get the poles on the inside to get the whole thing actually up off the ground using your first pole you need to come inside the tarpaulin and we're gonna aim for the first central attachment point so there's three attachment points along the top I want to come to the first one that's closest to the front I'm using this is gonna be the longest pole so I've got this set at 1 3 5 centimeters and then down here it's not quite marked I've taken the ferrule off the bottom so the spike will dig into the ground slightly and just give it that a little bit more sort of sturdiness these are pre measured out the reason we're using the tent poles is because sorry the hiking poles is because they are adjustable but they're already pre adjusted so that should go straight in so that top point and our first polls in once the first polls in we can then get the second one in again I've got it pre pre old pre extended and I've got it 105 centimeters obviously these might that kind of length might vary but and then I'm going to end

head for the furthest back attachment point at the top and I'm push it in a roughly 45 degree angle get that as tight as we can so have to watch sometimes at this stage those back pegs can pop out you want to make it as tight as it can because the the tautness of it is gonna push it into the ground slightly so you may need to readjust that at some point the next stage is to get all of this opened out to get it opened out we're going to start by using our short pieces of cordage so those loops on the top I've already put on basically just mean that I can pop it through and one loop through the other and we've got an attachment point I'm what I'm going to do with that piece now is I'm going to bring that piece of cord to the next attachment point in from this corner and peg the two out together they just we can use that to kind of pull the whole thing taut that front side and then we repeat that process on the other side as well now with the third and longest piece of cord again with those two loops just goes through that's one loop through the other and it pulls tight and this is why I really like for this cell to have them sort of pre-cut and pre pre measured out because it just speeds the whole thing up especially if you in bad weather conditions then pull that taut and PEG it down to the ground and there is our opening for this setup arranged the next step is to just peg the sides out and get the whole thing really taut and then we'll take a look inside so folks this is the interior of the shelter it's pretty difficult to film in here but hopefully you can see the kind of amount of space you've got in here you've got plenty of space for two people to sleep and you can put your gear and equipment in the middle as well and you've got the corner spaces too obviously with a setup like this you are going to want a bivy bag or a ground sheet in here at the very least personally I prefer to use a ground sheet in here because I get my I can keep my feet at the foot end and they've only a little bit of rain does come in if I've got a bivy bag it's not going to be an issue personally I've never actually experienced any rain coming in into this type of type of setup and but it just keeps all the bugs off the floor off you as well and it protects your sleeping bag from getting dirty so there you go guys that is another tarp setup for you it's a really really spacious one the only downside of it is you can't you can't close up that that sort of front opening with any real effect if you have got two people in here one person just can just carry a very small tile and you can peg that down at the front but yeah it goes off in under five minutes it's very very versatile great for the woods the mountains in an open field anywhere like that as always I hope you've enjoyed this video hope you've got something from it I hope you get some use out of this setup thank you all for watching please like share subscribe comment and I will see you in the next video thanks for watching everybody